Homeostasis Project
In this project we focused on the affects of blood pressure with homeostasis. For the data collecting, we recorded the resting blood pressure of 3 group members so we had something to compare to. Then they drank about a half cup of 100% grape juice, we had them wait exactly a minute, and then we recorded their blood pressure after the sugar has entered their system and check every other minute for 5 minutes. With this experiment we found that after having high levels of sugar in your body, your blood pressure increases.
For this project we studied how homeostasis affects the body systems. Homeostasis is the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes. Essentially, it is how the body keeps itself balanced. For example, when you get cold, you shiver to warm yourself up, and when you get hot you start sweating. That is how homeostasis balances temperature. My group and I tested how blood pressure was balanced by homeostasis. Blood pressure is the pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. There are two types of blood pressure, systolic and diastolic.
Overall, I learned more about homeostasis, and how it impacts all of the body systems, and what happens if it fails to balance. I think that we took a creative and different route compared to the other groups in the class which made our project stand out. Something that I feel that I could improve on in the future is to distribute the workload throughout the group members because I think that some teammates had nothing to do while others collected data and taking notes. I think that my group and I rushed to finish, so we were finished almost a whole day before the majority of the class, giving us nothing to do, and I think that we should always have something to do. In the end I think that this assignment was very interesting and I hope to do something similar in the future.